I stand for the heart. To the dogs with the head! I had rather be a fool with a heart, than Jupiter Olympus with his head. The rea...son the mass of men fear God, and at bottom dislike Him, is because they rather distrust His heart, and fancy Him all brain like a watch.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For... the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

St. Joseph in 1859 had the bustling appearance of a great fair, with excited travelers preparing to make the plains journey in pra...irie schooners, "rickety old farm wagons," and even small two-wheeled push carts. many bore such mottoes as--"Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady," "I Dare," "For Pike's Peak Ho." Before long many were to return, disappointed in their search for gold, hungry, ragged, and dispirited, their brave wagon boasts changed to "Prodigal Son," "Pike's Hell," "A Fool Is Born."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The vines of her armsdidn't cling to the ends of his clothes,...or did she plant herself in the doorway,hurl herself at his feet,or utter the word "Stay!"But as that fool began to goat the time when it was dark with swarming clouds,the slim girl blocked her lover's waywith only a rising rivermade with her flood of tears.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The multiplication of individual sects should not fool us: the important point is that the whole of America is preoccupied with th...e sect as a moral institution, with its immediate demand for beatification, its material efficacity, its compulsion for justification, and doubtless also with its madness and frenzy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »